Aam Aadmi Party
If there was an award for the most successful political start up of the last…
On the day the exit polls for the Delhi municipal elections were predicting a BJP…
Writing obituaries of political parties can be a hazardous business. In July 2014, an international…
History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce, but in Indian politics, the farce…
A few years ago, I was sitting next to Manohar Parrikar on a flight. The…
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, but what happens when the farce…
Call it “tyranny of distance” or simply the nature of the Delhi-centric 24×7 “national” media, but a day after Arvind Kejriwal’s famous win, the BJP swept the local body elections in Assam — only there were no bold headlines or screaming breaking news to announce the results.
In February this year, I met MV Kamath for the last time. Kamath, a veteran journalist, was dean of the Manipal Institute of Communication and had invited me to talk on the political situation in the country. We had to walk two floors: Kamath was 93, ailing, but insisted on taking the stairs. ‘I need to get fit,’
The ubiquitous Rotary Clubs are a decent indicator of the urban upper middle class mood.…